LJ Comms

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C. So the comm for learning a word a day is a go! It's called daily_words. It will start either tomorrow or the day after. If someone would like to make an icon with the words, "daily_words" on it, then I'd use that for posting on the comm so when you were scrolling through your flist, you'd always immediately recognize it (*looks innocently at late_heart*).

If you join the comm: remember, I'll always be looking for new words. Feel free to participate--or not--in any way you please. You shouldn't feel the need to comment on the posts unless particularly compelled, and if you have any ideas for the comm or things you'd like to see, please contact me!

O. Does anyone know the name of that LJ comm that sums up either meta or wank (can't remember which) in short snarky soundbites? All I could find was metaquotes, which I don't think it is because these aren't actual quotes. But each post is some quick meta rendition of a wank or discussion. Sort of like Book-A-Minute (which you should totally check out if you haven't seen!) So a post might go like this:

SVA: Wah wah.
JKR: PWN.
Anne Rice: I have nothing to do with this, but also, wah.

MM. There's a meme going around right now where you're asked to comment with the lj name of someone in you think others might enjoy reading. I wanted to do that meme, except make it for comms (and not just for Jossverse). I find most LJ comms difficult to use. There are either too many posts with too much info/content I don't have time to peruse, or they die quickly and are never updated. Those with unlimited posting access for members lead to lots of random posts I don't want to read, but limited posting by mods is often too regimented or fails because the mods go off and do something else.

Anywho, comment with an lj community (or several!) you enjoy, and why you enjoy it. It can be in any fandom, or it doesn't have to be a fandom at all, if it's where you get your news, hometown connections, random artistic enrichment, etc. It can have a lot of members and posts or be nearly dead, just so long as you enjoy it.

Comments

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I'll rec two of my favourite feeds, wordsmith_daily and xkcd_rss. The first is a daily word gift that has lots of words I don't know -- and they're *fun* words! -- and the second is my very favourite comic strip.

I think I'll have some suggestions for your word comm. Illustratively: the other day I was emptying mittens and things from my winter coat to throw in the laundry, and found a folded piece of paper with nothing written on it except "borborygmi." I have *no* clue.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm getting the daily email from wordsmith. I just signed up for it last week. Maybe I shouldn't do a daily word thing if that one's good, but anyway it'll be fun for a while. I'll have to research borborygmi. The other day I picked up a book at a used book store that had foreign words that meant funny things, like the Hawaiian word for "to scratch your head while you think about something" and the Japanese word for "die without regret". I love words that have very specific meanings.

Ooh, a daily comic! I'm looking for daily enrichment in bite sized morsels. Because I am the child of the commercial era and have a short attention span. I will check that out.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I will try to come back with a comm name later, but for now I wanted to say, awwww, curious wee Von Trapps in your mood icon!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I know! I love them so!

I wish I could find that comm, dammit-y.

[my_daroga]

Um... vintage_sex. I hardly ever look at it, but for some reason naked people engaging in sex is way more interesting in sepia. Probably just because of marked contrast to how we view previous generations.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Awesome! This looks really cool. And agree re: the sepia!

[ka1tlyn76.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

? The comm is up, if that's what you're excited about.

Yeah communities!

[zibbycomix.livejournal.com]

I love communities that parody movies, especially history_spork (which is actually not a community, whoops) and m15m. These types of communities inspired my BFF's and my movie parody journal (celluloid_redux).
I also love anything that has to do with Harry Potter. Here are some of the ones that I love: hp_pens, pottercon, potterpuffs, and potter_sticks. These communities also helped me to love Harry/Draco, incidentally.
I'm part of far too many communities, but a lot of them have stopped posting. It's so sad when a community that I like dies. I guess that's part of LJ life, though.